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Course Outline

  • Overview of OpenStack architecture
  • Course-specific OpenStack lab (VM) setup
  • Message queue and database services
  • Hardware requirements and capacity planning
    • Compute hardware specifications
    • Network design strategies
    • Storage architecture
    • Flavor sizing guidelines
    • Resource overcommitment techniques
  • High-availability control plane
    • HA implementation in OpenStack services
    • Highly available database configurations
    • Highly available message queue systems
  • Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
    • Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
    • Nova scheduler filters
  • Workload migration
    • Cold and live migration procedures
    • Omitizing live migration
    • Watcher project overview
  • Deep dive into OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
    • Network types (local, flat, VLAN, VXLAN, GRE)
    • Neutron plugins
      • Linux Bridge
      • Open vSwitch
    • Distributed Virtual Routers
    • LBaaS and Octavia project
    • VPNaaS
  • Troubleshooting
    • General approaches to diagnosing OpenStack issues
    • Diagnosing network problems
    • Log file analysis
    • Centralized logging strategies
    • Debugging OpenStack client queries
    • Managing the OpenStack database
    • OpenStack backup procedures
    • Evaluating compute node status
    • Evaluating instance status
    • Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
    • Metadata services
    • Troubleshooting network performance issues
    • Instance backup and recovery
  • OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
    • Ceilometer service
    • External monitoring tools
  • Advanced cloud and hypervisor features
    • CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
    • SR-IOV
  • Cloud-init and image customization
    • Metadata Service
  • Block storage backends
    • LVM
    • Ceph RBD
    • Physical storage appliances
    • Storage network considerations
  • Upgrading OpenStack
    • Upgrade strategies and procedures
    • Zero-downtime upgrades
  • Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
    • Ironic module
    • Undercloud and overcloud concepts
  • The future of OpenStack

Requirements

  • Foundational Linux administration skills
  • Basic understanding of networking concepts
  • Introduction to the cloud computing paradigm
  • Practical and theoretical familiarity with OpenStack
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